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Hutchison China Meditech Limited

27 April 2020

Results of Annual General Meeting

London: Monday, April 27, 2020: Hutchison China MediTech Limited ("Chi-Med") (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM) today announces that all ordinary resolutions and special resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on April 27, 2020 were duly passed. The poll results of the resolutions were as follows:

 
                                                                        Number of Votes (%)* 
 
   Resolutions                                                    For          Against       Withheld(#) 
        To consider and adopt the audited 
         financial statements and the reports 
         of the directors and independent 
         auditor for the year ended 31 December 
 1       2019.                                               622,475,006      135,425         209,095 
                                                              (99.97825%)    (0.02175%) 
 
 2(A)   To re-elect Mr Simon To as a director.               547,656,413     36,229,215     38,935,898 
                                                              (93.79515%)    (6.20485%) 
 
        To re-elect Mr Christian Hogg as 
 2(B)    a director.                                         614,200,226     8,605,840        15,460 
                                                              (98.61822%)    (1.38178%) 
 
        To re-elect Mr Johnny Cheng as a 
 2(C)    director.                                           612,394,636     10,412,825       14,065 
                                                              (98.32808%)    (1.67192%) 
 
 2(D)   To re-elect Dr Weiguo Su as a director.              612,400,256     10,410,325       10,945 
                                                              (98.32849%)    (1.67151%) 
 
 2(E)   To re-elect Dr Dan Eldar as a director.              612,014,066     10,796,615       10,845 
                                                              (98.26647%)    (1.73353%) 
 
 2(F)   To re-elect Ms Edith Shih as a director.             612,006,786     10,798,775       15,965 
                                                              (98.26611%)    (1.73389%) 
 
        To re-elect Mr Paul Carter as a 
 2(G)    director.                                           620,440,741     2,367,325        13,460 
                                                              (99.61989%)    (0.38011%) 
 
        To re-elect Dr Karen Ferrante as 
 2(H)    a director.                                         622,577,316      233,365         10,845 
                                                              (99.96253%)    (0.03747%) 
 
        To re-elect Mr Graeme Jack as a 
 2(I)    director.                                           619,884,406     2,921,135        15,985 
                                                              (99.53097%)    (0.46903%) 
 
        To re-elect Professor Tony Mok as 
 2(J)    a director.                                         622,805,231       5,450          10,845 
                                                              (99.99912%)    (0.00088%) 
 
        To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers 
         as the auditor of the Company and 
         authorise the board of directors 
 3       to fix the auditor's remuneration.                  622,682,786      125,795         12,945 
                                                              (99.97980%)    (0.02020%) 
 
                                  To grant a general 
                                   mandate to the 
                                   directors of the 
        Ordinary Resolution        Company to issue 
 4       No. 4(A)             :    additional shares.        615,116,216     7,686,590        18,720 
                                                              (98.76581%)    (1.23419%) 
 
                                  To disapply pre-emption 
        Special Resolution         rights (general 
         No. 4(B)             :    power).                   618,134,451     4,656,435        30,640 
                                                              (99.25233%)    (0.74767%) 
 
                                  To disapply pre-emption 
                                   rights (in connection 
        Special Resolution         with an equity 
         No. 4(C)             :    raise).                   529,841,459     81,598,207     11,381,860 
                                                              (86.65474%)    (13.34526%) 
 
                                  To grant a general 
                                   mandate to the 
                                   directors of the 
                                   Company to repurchase 
        Ordinary Resolution        shares of the 
         No. 4(D)             :    Company.                  622,786,026       25,890          9,610 
                                                              (99.99584%)    (0.00416%) 
 
                                  To amend the 2015 
                                   Share Option Scheme 
                                   and refresh the 
                                   scheme mandate 
                                   limit under the 
                                   2015 Share Option 
 5.     Ordinary Resolution   :    Scheme.                   501,381,220     83,165,305     38,275,001 
                                                              (85.77268%)    (14.22732%) 
 
                                  To adopt a new 
                                   memorandum and 
                                   articles of association 
 6      Special Resolution    :    of the Company.           622,545,861      248,265         27,400 
                                                              (99.96014%)    (0.03986%) 
 

* Percentages rounded to 5 decimal places

(#) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares of Chi-Med was 690,574,765, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on the ordinary resolutions and special resolutions proposed at the AGM.

About Chi-Med

Chi-Med (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM) is an innovative biopharmaceutical company committed, over the past twenty years, to the discovery and global development of targeted therapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. It has a portfolio of eight cancer drug candidates currently in clinical studies around the world and extensive commercial infrastructure in its home market of China. For more information, please visit: www.chi-med.com.

CONTACTS

 
Investor Enquiries 
  Mark Lee, Senior Vice President                            +852 2121 8200 
  Annie Cheng, Vice President                                +1 (973) 567 3786 
 
Media Enquiries 
  Americas - Brad Miles, Solebury Trout                      +1 (917) 570 7340 (Mobile) 
                                                              bmiles@troutgroup.com 
  Europe - Ben Atwell / Alex Shaw, FTI Consulting            +44 20 3727 1030 / +44 7771 913 902 (Mobile) / +44 7779 
                                                             545 055 (Mobile) 
                                                             Chi-Med@fticonsulting.com 
  Asia - Joseph Chi Lo / Zhou Yi, Brunswick                  +852 9850 5033 (Mobile), jlo@brunswickgroup.com / 
                                                              +852 97 83 6894 (Mobile), y zhou@brunswickgroup.com 
 
Nominated Advisor 
  Freddy Crossley / Atholl Tweedie, Panmure Gordon (UK) 
   Limited                                                   +44 (20) 7886 2500 
 

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